The Pennsylvania State University and the University of Namibia (UNAM) partnered to establish a food cooperative in the Northern Region of Namibia that processed nutritious foods using local crops grown by the cooperative members. Partners established and registered the cooperative with 25 initial members. UNAM conducted five training sessions for the community at Omahenene on issues related to cooperative organization, product development, costing, and record keeping.

Partners also conducted training programs to enhance educational and entrepreneurial opportunities for rural women and helped them become environmentally aware farmers, processors of nutritious, producers of value-added food made from locally grown raw crops, and marketers and distributors of those products to individual and institutional customers.